⁷ Then Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and ^(A)he bowed down and ^(B)kissed him; and they ^(C)asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.

^12 (A)Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat ^[a]a meal with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

¹³ Now it happened the next day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from the morning until the evening. ¹⁴ And Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, so he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?” ¹⁵ And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me ^(B)to inquire of God. ¹⁶ When they have a ^(C)matter, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor and make known the statutes of God and His laws.”